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Food for Thought

Recommend this exhibition

Food for Thought is a partnership exhibition
between Corinium Museum and the British Museum. It offers a new
look at food in Roman Britain that brings together unique objects
from The British Museum, Cirencester, Silchester and across the
Roman Empire including Pompeii, Rome, Athens and Tunisia.

Drawing on recent research, this exhibition will expose all
there is to know about Roman food. It will look at various
questions including how we know about Roman food, whether there
were regional patterns in eating and drinking in the Roman world,
how eating and drinking were used to create individual and group
identities and how this might relate to the ways we use food and
drink in the modern world.

From the British Museum’s collections, there is pottery from
North Africa and a wide range of glass vessels from Pompeii, Rome,
Athens, Egypt, and Ukraine, as well as a date-shaped perfume bottle
from Corfu, showing that not all food in the Roman world was for
eating. Some of the highlights in the exhibition will be a
terracotta bust of Bacchus from Rome and a mule couch ornament from
Gaul.